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BOURN, rather BORNE, n.

1. A bound a limit.

That undiscovered country, from whose bourn

No traveller returns.-------

2. A brook a torrent a rivulet. In this sense obsolete but retained in many names of towns, seated on the banks of streams. In Scotland, it is still used in the sense of a brook, but they write it burn.
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Entry for 'Bourn'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​b/bourn.html.
 
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